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...Kingsley smiled and quietly replied, "Yes." Their confusion didn't surprise Vadim Perelman, who directed Kingsley's new film, House of Sand and Fog, and was with him at the time. Over the past 40 years, the British actor has morphed into many larger-than-life figures - Moses, Hamlet, Gandhi. "He embodies his characters," says Perelman. Ben Kingsley disappears, and another man comes to life. "He's a chameleon." Kingsley's latest guise, as exiled Iranian Colonel Massoud Behrani in House of Sand and Fog, adapted from Andre Dubus III's 1999 novel, has earned him a Best Actor nomination...
...campaign is less a function of knee-jerk isolationism or even left-wing pacifism than a pragmatic judgment about how to fight best. No, alas, he's no Joe Lieberman in the war on terrorism. But his character suggests far more backbone in foreign affairs than does Kerry's Hamlet-like anguish and spin. I don't see Dean as President caving in to Jacques Chirac. And Dean could also save the Democrats from a left-wing split. In 2000 Al Gore lost in part because of the far-left Ralph Nader challenge. Dean has managed to bring these voters...
...actress and acting teacher best known for originating the role of Martha in Edward Albee's 1962 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; in New York City. Born in Germany and raised in Wisconsin, she began her career in London in 1937 as Ophelia in Eva Le Gallienne's Hamlet. She later won acclaim for her Nina in Chekhov's The Seagull and as the wife of an alcoholic actor in Clifford Odets' The Country Girl. In the late 1940s, she and her second husband, actor-director Herbert Berghof, started HB Studio, a widely respected performing-arts school...
...sexes at once is quite another. Hermaphrodites abound in the animal kingdom: how sensible to be able to mate with whoever happens to knock on the door! Among those that can truly swing both ways are the sea slug, the earthworm and the European giant garden slug. The black hamlet fish is the rare vertebrate in which members of a mating pair can take turns being male or female...
...October 15, 1977, Hefner was the guest host of ?Saturday Night Live? and participated in a skit that imagined him, as the Playboy Philosopher, in ancient Greece, pontificating along with Plato and Socrates. At the end he stares into the camera and poses the Hamlet-like question: ?To go pink, or not to go pink...